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Ellen Corley

DemocraticFirst-time candidate

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Ellen Corley is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House Illinois District 5 in the 2026 election. This is their first run for office.

From the candidate’s public filings

Background

Ellen Corley was born in Georgia. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her career experience includes working as a high school teacher and a marketing research consultant. She has been affiliated with the following organizations:

Chicago Alliance against Racist Political Repression

Graduate:
University of Illinois, Chicago, 2003
Bachelor's:
Colgate University, 1977
High school:
Bronxville High School

In their own words

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a 70 year old progressive scholar of American Deep State history who believes that it is my calling at this stage of my life to get to Washington where I will dare to speak out about the complete level of Fascist corruption that has taken over our government.

What distinguishes me from the incumbent, Representative Mike Quigley, is that I have 40 years of experience as a strategic marketing research consultant and entrepreneur who founded ResearchWorks in 1992 in Atlanta after designing and developing over a million dollars worth of strategic marketing research analyses for leading corporations in a variety of categories - healthcare, finance, pharmaceuticals, leading consumer brands.

Basically, I want to bring this skill set to Congress where my plan would be to literally design, develop and implement an ongoing citizen satisfaction survey that would give the U.S. government a digital report card that will be used to guarantee that every piece of legislation we pass is legislation that has been understood and vetted by the citizens we represent.

There is nothing at all difficult or expensive about implementing this kind of on-going alignment of any corporation or institution's quality of service with the expectations and perceptions of their customers.

Basically, my promise is to provide genuinely honest and morally-centered services to my constituents and to every American and to every person of the planet.

My pledge is to lead like JFK would have.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I see myself as a Thomas Massie Democrat. What I mean by that is I would work across the aisle like he has to lead his Republican party from initially every one of them resisting releasing the Epstein papers at all to the stage where all of the Democrats and all of the Republicans but one voted for the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The other Thomas Massie quality I would bring to the role unlike the incumbent, Mike Quigley, I would go onto the alternative media and social media like Thomas Massie did going onto Tucker Carlson and be honest about the problem driving America which is that 98% of our Congressional Representatives and Senators took AIPAC money, have an AIPAC baby sitter, and therefore are forced to vote for forever war.The key difference between me and the current administration is that I have been educated throughout my life to be a strategic scientific analyst of what exactly our politicians are doing in terms of their economic policies and decisions.

The largest influence on me in my life is my stepfather, Charles Brunie, who was a leading Wall Street financier and head of research at Oppenheimer & Co when he married my mother and brought our family to Bronxville, New York in 1965.

My stepfather mentored me in the school of macro-economics he understood so well and advocated as did his lifelong friends, Milton and Rose Friedman, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand.

My goal would be to teach Trump and others in power the importance of being scientific.Most importantly, I would be the only genuinely progressive, anti-war, anti-corruption, anti-imperialist Congressional Representative that has the knowledge of and independence from the globalist neo-conservative, AIPAC, Zionist Lobby to open something like a Church Commission hearing to bring the rogue shadow intelligence agents in the CIA, the FBI, the Department of War, Homeland Security and the outside globalist lobby to justice.

I have been studying this for the last ten years ever since I was asked by Bill Hamilton to help him prove in an offical Congressional hearing that the Inslaw PROMIS software was stolen by the CIA, the DOJ, and Israel's Military Intelligence and used to bring about a secret coup d'etat of the U.S.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

The public policy areas I am most passionate about is the problem of our $40 trillion debt that we could solve by implementing the four pillared program for saving the American Economic system that Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche advocated before his death in 2019.

The other most important problem I would like to address is the way a Select Committee needs to be convened to expose the way that the FCC has been subverted by corrupting undue influence of the USAGM and the CIA and the capture of our private communications and information through use of PROMIS now PALANTIR surveillance technology by our CIA and DOJ since the Reagan administration treasonously began colluding with Zionist Israeli intelligence since 1981.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

None that I know of yet.

Campaign websiteCorley's campaign website stated the following:1. Expose and End Corruption, and Achieve AccountabilityGet New Investigations into Corruption, Create More Inspector Generals' Offices, and Enforce and Expand Laws Against Honest Services Fraud.

2. Achieve Radical TransparencyIncluding through Releasing Files on Operation Paperclip, Nazis, N.A.S.A., C.I.A., Kennedys and Other Assassinations, Epstein & the Maxwells, and P.R.O.M.I.S. Spy Software.3. Reform Criminal JusticeInvestigate and End Torture by the Police and the C.I.A., Reform the Law to Allow Prosecution of Prosecutors, and Reform Judges’ Powers.4. “Restore Right Regulations”To Protect Social and Environmental Progress, Protect the Civil Rights of the Accused and Exonerees, and Make Elections Fair and Accessible for Voters and Candidates.— Ellen Corley's campaign website (February 20, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

On the 2026 ballot

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